We once did the sour sewer deal, then went for the public streets/traffic light X-Files. We had the Boondoggle – gone, and the Logsforbrains dynamic duo – out. The jig is up. That’s a 50-percent batting average.

Now, Peachtree City good guys, let’s try for the bleachers, let’s slam-dunk it, Kerr-plunk it (the now current Council Post 4 incumbent). I like our chances.

Folks, it’s the cowboy engineer one more time. Last time, I got in the game (with this politico column writing buzz), I was 100 percent with all my picks for the high vote leaders (The Citizen 10/21/09). Good grief, I beat the Editor-in-Chief. I feel that gives me the right to try my hand again as an apprentice political news reporter before trying for my own column at the newspaper (Ha, ha).

Seriously, I ask: “Does an election result have an effect on the way politicians behave? Shall elected politicians continue to be unresponsive?”

Look to the 3-2 votes for the selling of the Peachtree City public streets and the move-out-of-the-way support of the westside traffic light for the answer.

Lame ducks: you blew it in that one single decision, and now you’ve had it (I think). It was a goof-balled, game-changing decision. No more excuses about what the majority wants. Do you get it? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe we need a West Peachtree City bypass?

A skillful poetic writer once said, “A rose by any other name is still a rose.” Using my own fuzzy logic I will therefore say, “Selling public streets and getting a new traffic light for the westside by any other name is a Peachtree City stupid development.”

There was once a famous song relating to some true colors that went not so much like this: “I see your true colors shining through ... now don’t be afraid to let them show ... your true colors, like a rainbow.” Yep, y’all blew it.

My predictions (that I guarantee that the establishment fun-bunch and the DAPC crowd won’t like) are that Haddix will be our next mayor in a low turn-out runoff.

One hope that I have is that Haddix will spend some money and advertise in the media this time. If he does not, then I hope that his opponent will fall for the traditional “kiss of death,” where the establishment gang will buy a full-page ad listing names of all the “fat-cat” developer heavy hitters and has-been politicos in support of Haddix’s opponent. If that happens, Haddix may have to do nothing.

Council Post 1: Who cares? That would be a win-win situation for my money. I’m for Pullias. Pullias is for the neighborhoods, whereas Imker will wreak havoc on developer wrongdoers. Don’t you just love it? Imker had better spend some money and advertise, I think.

Council Post 3: Learnard is the “Mighty Learned One,” and we know Fleisch is golden (with her gold colored signs) in Council Post Four. Rowland, I like you, buddy, because you are the man. Please come back one day.

Closing, I would like to say that I don’t know much about history, don’t know much trigonometry, but I do know that one and one is two, Slam-dunk it, Ker-plunk it, I think she’s through. (The actual names of the guilty where changed to hide the guilty.) No punt, no foul.

James Melvin Ewing

Peachtree City, Ga.